The U.S. can learn from other countries by tracking emerging trends and adopting comprehensive approaches to prevention and ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Employer-sponsored health ...

Good health insurance is an essential component of affordable, accessible, and equitable health care. That’s why the Commonwealth Fund regularly asks people: how good is your coverage? And, when we ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Although nearly all older ...

Patricia Richardson Schoenbrun is a New Orleans-based writer. She served as a municipal reporter for The Daily Southtown, a daily newspaper that covers the southside of Chicago and its neighboring ...

Anne Morris Reid, M.P.H., policy director of the Funders Forum on Accountable Health project, is also a lecturer in the Health Policy and Management Department at the Milken Institute School of Public ...

Chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are leading causes of global morbidity and mortality, with costs projected to reach $47 trillion by 2030. Many are preventable through ...

Jennifer Trott, M.P.H., is a lead research scientist in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Her focus is on ...

Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.

Reducing hospital readmissions—especially those that result from poor inpatient or outpatient care—has long been a health policy goal because it represents an opportunity to lower health care costs, ...

First offered in 1925 and envisioned as a “reverse Rhodes Scholarship,” the Harkness Fellowships are the Commonwealth Fund’s longest-running program. Nearly 100 years later, they remain a flagship of ...

The Commonwealth Fund has its origins in the philanthropic efforts of the Harkness family. Stephen V. Harkness began his career in New York State’s Finger Lakes region at age 15 as an apprentice ...